I’m no fan of Mannix. He’s a former Dem that switched over to the GOP. The Oregon GOP is a very dysfunctional group of incompetents. It’s been infiltrated by liberals and loony moonbat snake handlers.
The Oregon Rat party on the other hand is a well organized cutthroat bunch of goose-stepping eco whackos. The news media, unions, and schools, are firmly in on the whole crooked mess. Portland and Salem are starting to make Tammany Hall look like a convent.
In spite of this Oregon consistently smacks down any attempts at raising taxes. Both political parties in Oregon are beyond help. Oregonians need to dump both parties and start over.
I can vote for that!
Good descriptions. Oregon is a very strange and unusual state that has changed dramatically over past decades. Probably a third of the population is on meth, another third on dope, so hence the Democrats have a stranglehold on power. Yet we normal conservative folks come out of hiding to vote and somehow are managing to keep the non-stop tax proposals in check (not always successful).
Obviously I’m being a bit sarcastic, but living here, this is what it feels like at times. Despite Portland being a nice city as urban areas go, the rest of the state seems extremely backward.
I don’t criticize converts, since I’m one myself (in 1986), but as I stated in a previous post, the OR GOP has had problems since the 1950s (with Sen. Wayne Morse’s switch, the rise of the Neubergers and going from an all-GOP delegation to nearly all rodent by 1956). Rodent corruption ain’t unique to OR, it pervades every state. Mine is worse than yours, with close to 1/3rd to half their State Senators either under indictment, being investigated, on trial, or in prison.
Even if you sacked both parties, it would still likely end up exactly as it is now.